Beyond CLTS: Leveraging Social Mobilization to Address Sanitation and Hygiene in Karamoja through the Home Improvement Campaign (HIC)

This learning brief is part of a series bringing together experiences and lessons learned from the Nuyok Resilience Food Security Activity (2017–2023). The briefs are designed for practitioners, including local government representatives, civil society organizations, and other actors working on natural resources management, sanitation, and livelihoods-related issues.

This learning brief presents how the Home Improvement Campaign (HIC) approach can motivate households to share resources and tasks to increase sanitation and hygiene coverage, highlighting the Nuyok RFSA’s experience implementing HIC in Karamoja. Lessons learned and recommendations in this document intend to help development partners, including local government, civil society organizations, and donors plan and design effective and successful interventions in similar areas.

To learn more about the Nuyok RFSA, check out the additional briefs below:

• Youth Entrepreneurship Program: Lessons from the Nuyok Activity in Abim District
• Effectiveness of Poverty Graduation in Improving Household Incomes Among Ultra-Poor Women in Napak District
• Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration: Lessons from Nuyok’s Approach in Karamoja